5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not COMMIT SIN; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
–1 John 3:5-9 (KJV)–
19 For out of the heart proceed EVIL THOUGHTS, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
–Matthew 15:19-20 (KJV)–
12 NOT AS THOUGH I HAD ALREADY ATTAINED, EITHER WERE ALREADY PERFECT: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
–Philippians 3:12-14 (KJV)–
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
–Galatians 5:16 (KJV)–
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John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress In Today’s English (Moody, 1964).
John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection (Beacon Hill Press, 1966).
Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, vol. 2 (Pathway Press, 1993), pp. 243-244.
Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1967), chs. 12, 30.
WesleyGospel, “A Debate With a Wesleyan Perfectionist.”
John Howie, Biographia Scoticana (Watt & Bailey, 1809).
WesleyGospel Ministries 